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The children of Giovanni Battista Ferrúa and Maria Damilano were all natives of Cuneo, Piedmont.
Their son Gerónimo (Gerolamo) Ferrúa Damilano (1888–1949)116 married Santo Domingo native Josefa
(Niní) Barruos Álvarez on May 20, 1923. Gerolamo came to the Dominican Republic at the age of 26 on June
23, 1913. He was a lithographer by profession, and he was the vice president of the magazine La Opinión and
its artistic director in 1925. He was the president of Litografía Ferrúa in 1939, a company formerly known as
Litografía Lepervanche C x A.
Juan Bautista (Nino) Ferrúa Damilano (1895–?) married Vitalia Lluberes in Santo Domingo on January
21, 1932. Nino arrived in the Dominican Republic on February 21, 1927 via Puerto Plata. He was a lithogra-
pher by profession, and in 1943 he resided at Calle José Reyes No. 31, and in 1951 he lived at Calle La Vega
No. 18 in Santo Domingo.
Antonio Ferrúa Damilano (1899–?) married Santo Domingo native and the sister-in-law of his brother,
Vicenta Teresa Barruos Álvarez on May 20, 1928. Antonio Ferrúa came to the Dominican Republic via the
port of Santo Domingo on December 6, 1922. In 1943 he resided at Calle José Reyes No. 31 in Santo Domin-
go. Like his brothers, he was also a lithographer by profession. This family ventured into dairy production,
producing Quesos San Juan.
Orlando Pannocchia Martinelli (1893–1955),117 son of Luigi Pannocchia and Amalia Martinelli and
native of Balbano, Lucca, Tuscany, arrived in the Dominican Republic on the SS Caravelle via the port of
Santo Domingo on January 24, 1906. He married a Montecristi native, María Eneria Álvarez Arias,118 niece of
General Desiderio Arias Álvarez, at the Church of San Fernando de Montecristi on January 9, 1915. In 1925,
Orlando Pannocchia owned an import and export company in Montecristi. In 1946 he resided at Calle José
Reyes No. 54 in Santo Domingo. The family settled in the capital around 1930.
Pasquale Forestieri Alario (1906–1986),119 son of Felice Forestieri and Rosina Alario Sarubbi and na-
tive of San Nicola Arcella, Cosenza, Calabria, arrived in the country in November 1921 via Puerto Plata. He
married Fedora Altagracia Sanabia Villaverde in her hometown of Santo Domingo on September 12, 1936.
His brother was Francesco Forestieri Alario (1912–1983),120 who married a San José de Ocoa native of
Curaçaoan origin, Violeta Schotborgh Herreran, in Santo Domingo on January 19, 1946.121 Another brother
was Domenico Forestieri Alario (1903–1999), who arrived via Puerto Plata on November 11, 1921. In 1953
he lived in Jayabo Adentro, Salcedo. It is not known whom he married, and he died on November 23, 1999,
at 96 years of age in Scalea, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy.
Giuseppe Grimaldi Caroprese (1891–?), a native of Scalea, Cosenza, Calabria, married Mercedes Suriel
Liranzo in La Vega. He was a merchant, and his descendants in Santo Domingo are the Grimaldi-Núñez,
Grimaldi-Céspedes, Mieses-Grimaldi, and Grimaldi-Silié families.
Luigi Baldassare Guaschino Barbaglia (1898–1950),122 a native of Frascarolo, Pavia, Lombardy, married
Beniamina Zella Corsino. He arrived in the Dominican Republic on October 24, 1924 via Puerto Plata. He
was a senior officer of Ingenio Angelina in San Pedro de Macorís. His brother Ercole Giovanni Guaschino
Barbaglia (1901–1969) arrived on September 12, 1924 via Puerto Plata. He married Margarita Consuelo Ven-
egas in San Pedro de Macorís in 1931. In 1953 he worked at Ingenio Angelina in San Pedro de Macorís. These
Guaschino families worked in the sugar industry in the east of the country.
Rocco Manlio Atilio Gustavo Del Guidijo Pagano (1877–1957),123 a native of Ispani, Salerno, Campa-
nia, married Celia de Marchena López (1889–1977), a native of this province, in 1907 in San Pedro de Ma-
corís. Descendants include Dr. Pedro Barón del Giudijo de Marchena124 and the economist Víctor Antonio
Canto del Giudijo. A relative of Rocco or “Roque” was Italo Del Giudice (1895 –?), also a native of Ispani,
Salerno, Campania. In 1922, Italomarried Adelaida Herrera (1899– 1992) in San Pedro de Macorís, a native
of the aforementioned province.